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January 09, 2006

Conservatives: Invade the World!

Jim Quinn, ostensibly conservative host of the "Quinn in the Morning" show on Pittsburgh station WPGB and a few other stations in the area: "The United States of America, as the most powerful free state in the world, has an obligation to go around the world removing dictators." (Emphasis mine.)

Quinn went on to state his desire that the U.S. remove Hugo Chavez from Venezuela, Fidel Castro from Cuba, and (by implication) the mullahs of Iran. No doubt he would invade Syria, too. (His co-host this morning reiterated her belief that Saddam shipped his alleged WMDs off to Syria prior to the U.S. invasion--rather than, for example, using them to repel the invasion--an opinion she believes ought to be shared by any rational adult.) He also bluntly stated that "isolationism" wouldn't cut it. I wonder how he thinks we're going to pay for all this military adventurism and how we can accomplish it without the government's growing bigger and bigger.

I suspect that I could find, if I could get hold of Quinn's archives from 2000, comments of his supporting George W. Bush's "humbler" foreign policy as opposed to Al Gore's "world's policeman" approach. Then again, Quinn, like most "conservatives," can be counted on to support whatever Bush does, no matter how anti-freedom, especially since "9/11 changed everything."

Tellingly, his website is called The War Room, which tells you everything you need to know about his brand of "conservatism." (Murray Rothbard had these people pegged over a decade ago.)

Posted by Mike Tennant at January 9, 2006 10:11 AM

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